Originally from Nebraska, Scott Abels has a MFA from Boise State University. He just made the big move from living and teaching in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico, to Honolulu, Hawaii. His poems can also be found online at Action Yes, No Tell Motel, Shampoo, and Sawbuck.
Juliet Cook is a poet and the editor of Blood Pudding Press. A few of her recent publication credits include DIAGRAM, Octopus, diode, Taiga and Prick of the Spindle. Some of her print chapbooks can be acquired via www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com. Her first e-chapbook, Projectile Vomit, is forthcoming from Scantily Clad Press—and another print chapbook, Gingerbread Girl, is forthcoming from Trainwreck Press. Her first full-length book is slinking around, mewling and hissing and seeking a peculiar home.
Nicole Cartwright Denison lives on a trout farm in the mountains of western North Carolina, is the author of Recovering the Body (dancing girl press, 2007) and a Best of the Net 2008 nominee. Work is forthcoming in WOMB and has appeared in blossombones, Blue Fifth Review, Ectoplasmic Necropolis, tattoo highway, Poetry Midwest, Alba, eight octaves, The Commonline Project, elimae, The Pedestal Magazine and others. Her photography has appeared in Stirring, Digital Paper and Lily. You can find her on the web and driving the river gorge.
Brian Foley is the author of The Tornado is not a Surrealist (Greying Ghost Press). His work has appeared or is forthcomingLIT, Caketrain, MiPoesias, Nano Fiction, Hobart, elimae, Wigleaf, Sleeping Fish, BlazeVox, Ghoti, Wandering Army, Eyeshot, Lamination Colony, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, Pequin, Quick Fiction, Night Train, Juked and others.
Kyle Hemmings holds an MFA in creative writing. In his spare time, he likes to cook, bake, and burn food. He also likes listening to old Beach Boys records during winter.
Donora Hillard is the author of Romance (Maverick Duck Press, 2008), Bone Cages (BlazeVox [books], 2007),and Parapherna (dancing girl press, 2006). Her fiction, lyric memoir, and poetry have appeared in NANO Fiction, Pebble Lake Review, Segue, and elsewhere. She has been an instructor of writing at Harrisburg Area Community College and King's College, and she presently teaches in southern Pennsylvania. Something spooky about her is that she has an actual spooky boyfriend. She's quiet about her relationship, but he writes avant-garde poetry and prose and has been published all over the place.
Russell Jaffe is a Chicagoan living in Brooklyn. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago with an MFA in Poetry, and his poems have appeared in MiPOesais, Ariel, The Archive, and Columbia Poetry Review. He also the founder and editor-in-chief of poetics blog O Sweet Flowery Roses. There is nothing spooky about him, except that 75% of the time he is a working New Yorker and poet, and 25% of the time he is The Claw, an undead Mexican wrestler who is well over 4000 years old.
Raffi Robert Kiureghian is a young writer from California. His favorite pokemon is Slowpoke and he is fond of Peruvian hats. He writes words here (http://www.raffi-beardly.blogspot.com) and makes music songs here (www.myspace.com/nathanandraffi).
gena mohwish lives in the vertebral column of a deer mouse. there are computers small enough to fit in there with her, so naturally she has a blog. sometimes she likes to steal flavored condoms and eat them.
Dan Nowak is working towards his Ph.D. and received his MFA from Spalding University. He won the 2007 Quercus Review Poetry Series Award and his work can be found in journals such as the Cream City Review, Blue Collar Review, and Blood Lotus. He is an editor for New Sins Press and a founder/editor for Imaginary Friend Press.
connor tomas o'brien likes to interview authors of serious literature. if you would like to be interviewed please go to his blog (bye-polar-bears.blogspot.com) and leave him a comment. one day connor tomas o'brien would like to have an extreme degree of power and perhaps his own religion.
Peter Schwartz has been practicing the craft of poetry for over 20 years. His work has appeared in over 100 print and online journals. His published chapbooks are my novena and the nowhere glow. See more at: http://www.sitrahahra.com/. Spooky? Please! He's currently at work illustrating a chapbook of vampire poems.
Becca Sheehan is a wild child living in the very weird city of Louisville, Kentucky. She writes only in the summer months and keeps her poetry secret except during episodes of mania.
Susan Slaviero is the author of two forthcoming chapbooks: An Introduction to the Archetypes (shadowbox press, 2008), and Apocrypha (dancing girl press, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in journals like Caffeine Destiny, Ghoti, Arsenic Lobster, Lamination Colony, and wicked alice, among others. She co-edits the online literary journal, blossombones. She has been known to have prophetic dreams.
Nicole Steinberg is co-editor of LIT, an Associate Editor for Entertainment Weekly, and a contributing editor to BOMB. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, RealPoetik, No Tell Motel, Eleven Eleven, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. She hosts and curates EARSHOT, a Brooklyn-based reading series dedicated to emerging writers of all genres (http://earshotnyc.com). She lives in Queens, NY.
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez has poetry that has appeared in journals such as Snow Monkey, Columbia Poetry Review, Dirty Napkin, Left-Facing Bird, Free Verse and Tryst. She just moved from Minneapolis to Phoenix and appears to thrive in extreme cold and extreme heat, but does that make her a MONSTER? o no no no no no no maybe.